“It’s not the critic who counts, not the one who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood, and who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend himself in a worthy cause, who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. His place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat!” – Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not because life is difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that life is difficult.”
- Seneca

I hope they encourage you today.

Here’s one for you; my editor over at the new gig used it in her email today. She and I love the same quotes!

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
- Audre Lorde

I hope you’ll let me help you hone your vision some day, Marc!
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Janice, you are a model of courage. The more I get to know you, the braver you seem to be.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

I’ve always been ridiculously brave – it takes my husband’s breath away some of the rashly stupid brave things I’ve done before thinking – but by far the bravest thing I’ve ever done, many years ago, was to decide to get up, the first ever time I decided life wasn’t worth living any more.

Being told I had a tumour just made me philosophical and grateful whereas motherhood has made me as fiecely brave as any mother tiger. It’s primaeval.

Some days, the bravest thing I do is have the courage to simply be myself and keep reaching out, despite the pain of being rejected and abandoned by people who don’t understand that I’m trying to do the very best I can with what I have.
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